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War stymies technology. Ask Elon Musk what he thinks on the matter!

A few years ago while reading The Arsenal of Democracy, after hearing the author present his book at a New York Public Library event, I decided to examine, as the devil’s advocate, the commonly held believe: war advances technology. There were practical electric vehicles on par with the technology of the day before the world mobilized for World War II that were lost as viable development efforts, because mobilization for war institutionalized the internal combustion engine over other less attractive technologies such as electric motors. The decision in this specific instance was based on a secondary factor the logistics of delivering the energy required to drive the technology, not the technology itself.